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Comment by Klonoar

3 days ago

Persona is not “sketchy” unless you are actively paranoid. It’s used by quite a few large entities around the web now.

It is sad that the web has become this but that’s a separate discussion.

Firm that verifies mugshots for ChatGPT and Roblox feeds US surveillance apparatus with 269 distinct checks

https://cybernews.com/privacy/persona-leak-exposes-global-su...

  • > However, the researchers admit that the findings do not prove the direct bidirectional data pipeline between ChatGPT users and screenings performed by the government.

    Otherwise none of that particularly surprises me. There are legitimate use cases for wanting to verify this stuff; my point to OP is that it's not some out of the blue company, it's widely used.